Wilbanks led a We the People petition supporting the free access of taxpayer-funded research data, which gained over 65,000 signatures.

[6] He frequently campaigns for wider adoption of open access publishing in science[7][8][9] and the increased sharing of data by scientists.

There he led efforts in software development and Internet-mediated learning, and was involved in the Berkman Center's work on ICANN.

[13] While at the Berkman Center, Wilbanks founded Incellico, Inc., a bioinformatics company that built semantic graph networks for use in pharmaceutical research and development.

Since health data is restricted and expensive, this project provided people the opportunity to freely donate information that can only positively benefit medicine and patients at large.

[17] Consent to Research was connected to the Access2Research project, which aimed to free access over the Internet to scientific journal articles that are already taxpayer-funded.